Strike threat if Paris Match editor is fired

As has been forecast for some timeAlain Genestar, the editor of the French magazine Paris Match, has been required to quit his job over pictures he published of the estranged wife of the interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy. The magazine's owner, Arnaud Lagardière, a friend of Sarkozy, now faces a strike by journalists who wish Genestar to stay. (Via telegraph.co.uk)